WATCH: Varun Aaron's Special Inswinging Knuckle Ball To Evin Lewis

A new variation for bowlers - swinging knuckleball, which was bowled by Varun Aaron during LSG vs GT IPL 2022 match.

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Cricket is an ever-evolving game. T20 is a batters game and bowlers have to keep on trying different things to be relevant in the format. Variations are important for the bowlers to keep the batters guessing. 

Slow balls have a variety and one such variety is the knuckleball. It is the ball that a bowler delivers from his knuckles. A perfect knuckleball makes the batter see it coming with the seam but with no revs on it. There is no pace on the ball and if the batter doesn't adjust to it early, he won't be able to hit it with timing. 

Just when the knuckleball was being picked and mastered by bowlers, a new type of knuckleball is slowly getting into the scene - the swinging knuckleball. 

During the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vs Gujarat Titans (GT) match, Varun Aaron displayed a variant of knuckleball that swings. Aaron bowled it to Evin Lewis which didn't make much of a difference but it was an interesting skill to see from the fast bowler. 

V Aaron swinging away to Lewis with knuckle grip. Unique delivery, don't think any other pacers currently swinging with knuckle grip. pic.twitter.com/X8uSJc8zLB

— Muthu kumar.. (@MuthukJo) March 29, 2022

However, this isn't the first Aaron has bowled the swinging knuckleball. In 2019 as well, while playing for Rajasthan Royals(RR), Aaron got Shubman Gill out with an in-swinging knuckleball. 

Not many bowlers have tried it much on the international scene but Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Chris Woakes have also tried bowling this delivery. It is still a new variant of knuckleball but that's what makes the sport interesting when one side keeps asking questions to the other side. Now the onus is on batters get find solutions to new variations.